9 comments:

I don't think you understand my point. Do you disagree with them because they are wrong? Do you disagree because of ideology?

ChCon may not have realized the implications of the "yellow cake" story, does that make every other post of his bad? Does that mean all BT'ers are ignorant on the subject?

Daifallah drew a connection between rising fuel costs and lower car sales, and that makes him a "mouth-breather"?

Gerry Nicholls does some analysis on the state of the Repbulican Party, and you call him out on it for what? Does that imply that the whole of BT'ers agree? Even Daryl Wolk who's an Obama Supporter (like myself)?

It's fine that you call out individual posts and display where the argument falls apart, or what may impact the opinion, but it's not realistic to tar everyone with the same brush because they belong to the same blogroll.

You may as well argue that I secretly have a bible under my bed that I thump before I go to sleep.

Speaking for myself: Yes, they are quite often wrong. Most of them don't know the difference between an argument and an assertion, rely on evidence of very dubious quality (if they bother referring to any evidence at all) and are usually unwilling to acknowledge that they can't possibly know as much as they believe they do.

And of course, there's the lying.

And that would be fine if they didn't engage in vilifying, smearing and defaming their political adversaries as much as they do. That was the Republican strategy that was devised by Newt Gingrich and his gang back in the early 90's and is now firmly entrenched in the Reform--a-Tories. Its expressed purpose was to piss liberals/lefties/progressives off and put them constantly on the defensive.

That's why I like this blog. The response to this type of thing shouldn't be defense or civil engagement; it should a resounding "f*ck off."

And it is hypocritical for the alledgedly 'rational'/'enlightened' bloggers to associate with the religious wingnuts, because they need them to win elections. Without those people that think I want to force their children to become atheist homosexuals, the Conservatives would never win an election.